"Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. . t ] t SELECTING THE HORSE. Let your wisdom be your guide. In choosing your steed it is as well to remember thegenuine old saying—that a good horse Is never a badcolour—but in setting up the first Turn Out there areoften many difficulties to surmount in this respect, it beingthe wish or desire on the part of the purchaser, or thoseof his family or friends whom he may consult, that thehorse s/ia// be some partic
"Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. . t ] t SELECTING THE HORSE. Let your wisdom be your guide. In choosing your steed it is as well to remember thegenuine old saying—that a good horse Is never a badcolour—but in setting up the first Turn Out there areoften many difficulties to surmount in this respect, it beingthe wish or desire on the part of the purchaser, or thoseof his family or friends whom he may consult, that thehorse s/ia// be some particular colour ; and the height, age,make, and price is carefully laid down ; in fact the under-taking is gone into with such apparent nicety, and madeof so serious a moment that these complications are ulti-mately determined upon, and thereby it almost becomes anabsolute necessity that the speculator shall be measured forhis wants, ere he can be (to use the old trade term)carefully or successfully fitted. Newspapers are frequentlylooked over with the object of meeting with someadvertisement of an animal calculated to answer the exactpurpose, and after considerable searching, a
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